tumble-down

1. 1.

   in deplorable condition

   “a street of bedraggled tenements”

   “a broken-down fence”

   “a ramshackle old pier”

   “a tumble-down shack”

   Synonymsbedraggledbroken-downderelictdilapidatedramshackletatterdemalion

   Similardamaged

Questions about tumble-down

What does tumble-down mean?

tumble-down means "in deplorable condition".

How many syllables are in tumble-down?

tumble-down has 3 syllables: tum-ble--down. The stress falls on "tum".

What is another word for tumble-down?

Close synonyms include bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tumble-down a common word?

tumble-down is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.